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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last thing they hear from the second soldier's mike?

2. Who is left inside the Inn?

3. Which scientist gives Bryce and Jenny their report?

4. Who does the creature kill next?

5. Why do Copperfield's men go into the sewer line?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Fletcher Kale in the woods near Jake Johnson's cabin?

2. How does the creature manage to get to Gordy on a personal level?

3. What kind of people make up the team that Copperfield brings with him?

4. How does word of the situation in Snowfield leak despite Hammond's best efforts to stop it?

5. What is the creature unable to use and how is that brought to the survivor's attention?

6. What lesson does the entity feel compelled to re-administer after Copperfield and his team arrive?

7. What does Copperfield's approach to the whole situation cost him?

8. What does science reveal about the victims and about the creature's use of them?

9. What does the group learn from examination of a sample of the Ancient Enemy?

10. What does Fletcher Kale finally realize as he is being taken down to court?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What names does the Ancient Enemy give itself? How does it communicate these names to the group? How does the Ancient Enemy view itself, and what is the direct conflict this creates with its opinion of God and religion in general? What does the Ancient Enemy tell Bryce about his family, and how is it likely to have obtained this personal information about him? Who is the group is deeply affected by the religious connotations involved?

Essay Topic 2

What does Flyte tell the Ancient Enemy when it insists that human beings are merely cattle to it? How does Flyte explain the level of intelligence the creature has managed to evolve with? Why does that anger the Ancient Enemy? What attributes other than intelligence has the Ancient Enemy inadvertently absorbed along with the many people it has consumed to survive? Why is this significant now? What effect does it have on the creature?

Essay Topic 3

What is unusual about the town of Snowfield when Jennifer and Lisa arrive? How do both girls perceive the town differently at first? What are the first things that Jennifer notices as she is driving home versus the first impressions that Lisa has of her new home? Where does Jennifer discover her housekeeper, Hilda? How is this traumatic for Lisa and why is it significant to her? What memory overlaps her observations at first?

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